uropean Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plu Identifying Challenges in the Healthcare Sector
European Clearing House for Open Robotics Development Plus Plus
Identifying Challenges in the Healthcare Sector
ECHORD++ in a nutshell
• Strives to integrate healthcare practitioners, their knowledge and expertise in the product development process.
• An once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to influence how the future healthcare technologies can offer you the best help possible
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Identify Challenges
Deadline 10th of June 2014
Panel will select the most
interesting challenge
Workshop to gather potential
consortium members.
Creating mock-up artifacts
February 2015
Open Call for consortiums on
specific challenge
Development project and
business case
Panel selects the best solution
Challenges – the 4 D’s of Robotics Often, when you have to identify where a robotic solution can help you, you can ask yourself if you encounter any of the “D-assignments” in your professional life as a healthcare practitioner
Dull
3Dangerous
Dirty
Distance
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Dull
Robots can do jobs that require the repetition of actions over and overwithout getting bored or making mistakes.Examples could be:
• To repeat rehabilitation exercises • To repeat therapeutic treatment. E.g. in treatment of persons with autism
See examples of current solutions here:
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Dangerous
Robotic solutions can perform tasks that can harm employees physically, and can help prevent situations that put the patient and the employee in danger.An example could be:
• Heavy lifts• Operations
See examples of current solutions here:
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Dirty
Clean environments improves health of employees and patients.Examples could be:
• Cleaning robots• Washing robots• Bin emptying• Maintenance
See examples of current solutions here:
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Distance
Distance between departments and work spaces cause waste of time and resources. Examples of robotic solutions could be:
• Logistic robots• Autonomous guided vehicles• Pneumatic dispatch systems
See examples of current solutions here:
What is your challenge?
Please indicate your challenge where a new generation of robotic solution could be developed.
Maybe the current solutions do not fulfill your needs?Maybe you have a challenge which does not have a solution yet?
Contact Sabina Kethelz from Blue Ocean [email protected]
The ECHORD Plus Plus Consortium acknowledges support by the European Commission under FP7 contract 601116.